Metro Washington Council afl-cio

With more than 100 union members and their supporters looking on, the Montgomery County Government Operations Committee on Thursday unanimously voted down a bill that UFCW Local 1994 called “an egregious attack on unions.” Bill 24-16, pushed by Council President Nancy Floreen, proposed changes to the county’s collective bargaining law the union said would unfairly tip the scales in favor of the employer. While claiming to make the process for negotiations more fair, some of the language in the bill was identical to model legislation from the anti-union Koch Brothers’ American Legislative Exchange Council. “This bill goes against democratic principles and attacks worker rights,” said Local 1994, which represents thousands of Montgomery County employees. ​photo by Carlos Jimenez